Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax.
Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.
Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed.
Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
New Orleans$2,370
Battle Creek$2,367
Myrtle Beach$2,358
Salt Lake City$2,355
Gainesville$2,352
Duluth$2,331
Fargo$2,328
Albuquerque$2,325
Humboldt County$2,316
Memphis$2,316
Raleigh$2,316
Eastern Shore$2,310
County Cost Group 800$2,280
Boise$2,274
Lemoore NAS$2,274
Louisville$2,271
State College$2,271
Eastern Panhandle$2,250
Jacksonville$2,238
Columbus$2,235
Rock Island$2,235
Youngstown$1,332
Raleigh is #178 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Raleigh0 – $2,775 / month
E-1$1,947
E-2$1,947
E-3$1,947
E-4$1,947
E-5$2,091
E-6$2,319
E-7$2,343
E-8$2,373
E-9$2,445
W-1$2,337
W-2$2,355
W-3$2,394
W-4$2,466
W-5$2,562
O-1E$2,346
O-2E$2,385
O-3E$2,481
O-1$2,127
O-2$2,316
O-3$2,391
O-4$2,589
O-5$2,736
O-6$2,757
O-7$2,775
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Raleigh to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,135 a month — about 42 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
What the rate table does not tell you
01
“With dependents” is a dependency
status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized
BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the
with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides —
not this table.
02
O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as
O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.
03
This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA,
which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and
move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.